Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 85

The Indians themselves can give little comment on the meaning or reason of this ceremony, except that it is done from respect to the bear and satisfaction in securing a bountiful supply of meat.

Who acts: Indians · What happens: give, do, secure · To what, where: little comment, meaning, comment, respect, bountiful supply

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Indians	det
2	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 give	nsubj
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 Indians	nmod:unmarked
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 comment	amod
7	comment	comment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 meaning	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meaning	det
10	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comment	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 reason	cc
12	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meaning	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 ceremony	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 ceremony	det
15	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reason	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 done	punct
17	except	except	ADP	_	21 done	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 except	fixed
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 done	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 done	aux:pass
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 give	parataxis
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 respect	case
23	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 done	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 bear	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bear	det
26	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 done	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 satisfaction	cc
28	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bear	conj
29	in	in	SCONJ	_	30 securing	mark
30	securing	secure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 done	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 supply	det
32	bountiful	bountiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 supply	amod
33	supply	supply	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 securing	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 meat	case
35	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 supply	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	can	the Indians Indians	little comment	the meaning or reason of this ceremony		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent comment=Theme on meaning=Asset
2	do	present · passive		comment	respect	to the bear and satisfaction	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	secure	gerund		a bountiful supply of meat			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition supply=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/10/85/

🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 85

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 85